Magazine-display device



May 4 1926.

F. A; COOK MAGAZINE DISPLAY DEVICE .F'ild August 25, 1923 avweutoz fi'ank ,4. Cook 1 for displaymg books,

Patented May 4, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT osr cs.

FRANK A. COOK, OF MADISON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE BUTTERICK P'iTBIrISH-.

ING COMPANY, OF YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

MAGAZINE-DISPLAY DEVICE.

Application filed August 25, 1923. Serial No. 659,336.

To aZl whom it may concern; Be it known thatI, FRANK A. COOK, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Madison, in the county of Morris and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful lmprovements in Magazine Display-Devices, of which the following is a full, clear. and exact description.

This invention relates to display devices, and its chief object is to provide a device magazines, and the like, in such manner as to expose a number of the pages thereof. A further object is to provide for the purpose mentioned a de-' vice by which the magazine can be hung up on a wall or other support or may stand on a table, counter, or showcase. Another'obect is to provlde a device of simple charac-' ter which can'be manufactured at low cost. To these and other ends the lnvention'con- 'sists in the novel features hereinafter described.

' length, bent at clip 10 and a loop 11, with two outwardly 1Q, 12, having their endsv Referring to the accompanying drawing, Fig. 1 shows the preferred form of the invention.

Fig. 2 is a section on line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing the device of Fig. 1 in use.

Fig. 4 illustrates a modification. In the forms shown "the device is made of a single piece of stittspring wire of suitable its center to form a spring extending 1 arms bent upwardly and downwardly, preferably in the plane of the clamp 10, to form termi nal spring clips 13.

In using the device the top edge of the back of the magazine is pushed into the center clip 10 as shown in Fig. 3, and is fir1n' ly gripped thereby The magazine is then opened at the cente or anyconvenient place and the two groups of leaves thus formed are bowed forwardly and their upper edges, near the side edges, are thrust upwardly into the end clips 10; it being understood that the distance between thetend clips is considerably less than the width of the magazine when the same is open, so that when the device is applied as shown the two groups of level surface, forming a self-supporting easel, as it were,or itcan be suspended on ahook by means of the loop or eye 11. The

latter is preferably made" with at. least two turns of the wire as in'Fig. 2, to form between them a recess or spring clip 15to receive and hold aprice ticket or other advertising card, asin Fig. 3. I

The form of the invention shown in Fig. 1 is somewhat simpler, in that the center clamp 10 is in the without the eye 11 and ticket clip 15 of Fig.1.

It is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the specific constructions herein illustrated and described but can be embodied in other forms without departure from its spirit.

1 r I claim:

form of a simple loop,

A display device for magazines,compris'- ing a single length of spring wire bent at its center to form a center clip to'grasp the back edge of the magazine and bent above said center clip to form aheliX having two turns between which a card may be held, the'wire on each side of the center clip extending laterally therefrom and bent at its ends to inverted U-form to constitute terminal'clips for grasping the. leaves of the magazine in separated groups.

1n testimony whereof I hereto my 51' gnature. r

I FRANK A. COOK. 

